Salt Lake Tribune | 1902-07-22 | Page 5 | The New Councilman

THE NEW COUNCILMAN WellKnown Business Man and Republican Re-publican of the City Tlie problem or choosing a successor to fJty Councilman Robertson was solved without trouble by the Republicans Republi-cans of thc Fifth precinct yesterday I On Invitation of Councilman Davis the members of the Republican city committee com-mittee I from thc t Firth precinct thc ella irlcl chairmen the I chairman of the prcHnct and time two Councllmcn met at Bcnrdsleys Tavern to agree upon a man A Fred Wey presided over the meeting nnd C O JCIllngwood J A Fred Wey 11 N Standish and Thomas R Black vorc placed In nomination for Councilman Several ballots were taken ta-ken and HIack was finally chosen Ills nomination was made unanimous and the nomination waa ratified by the Council haitI evenlnir The new Councilman Is no stranger to the business men of Salt Lake He came to this I rlty seven years ago and organIzed the Salt Lake Sad 11ely company com-pany Since then lIe has been the manager man-ager l of that business and has won the I conlldencc and respect of the community com-munity Tic was I born in PItlsburg Pa in ISiiS he removed lo Iowa soon after with his family went from thereto there-to Chicago nnd for twenty years traveled trav-eled for a saddlery house before coming with his family to Salt Luke He has always been a staunch Republican and an active and effective worker in his party